Articles, Information, & Databases
Magazines
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Newspapers
Click on the links below to access news and newspapers (login with your library card barcode and PIN):
Digital New York Times & U.S. Northeast Collection
Digital microfilm of Northeast newspapers including the Putnam/Westchester area of The Journal News from 2010 to the current year, and The New York Times from 2008 to the current year.
Historical Newspapers
Historical New York Times from ProQuest. This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage: 1851 – 2011
Historical materials from New York State’s Hudson River Valley including the following newspapers:
- Newburgh Telegraph (1831-1835)
- Rockland County Journal (1850-1879)
- Rockland County Messenger (1848;1851-1855;1857)
- Rockland County Times (1902-1904)
- The Kingston Daily Freeman (1895;1903-1912)
- Vassar Miscellany News (1914-2000)
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Job & Career Help
AtoZdatabases Note: MPL card is needed when accessing outside the library.
A premier job search, reference, and mailing list database.
Includes 2.3 million job listings, 30 million business profiles, 1.1 million healthcare professionals, and much more.
For sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends & relatives, and much more.
Interview & Job Search Help: Practice interviewing with live one-on-one help; online job search sites. Also includes resume templates to help you write your resume; tips to answer tough interview questions and links to job search sites.
The Adult Learning Center features test preparation (including High School Equivalency and U.S. citizenship preparation), writing assistance, and study tools for math, reading and writing. One-on-one academic coaching.
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Homework Resources - databases, encyclopedias, dictionaries
Video Tutorial: Getting started with Britannica Academic
Opposing Viewpoints in Context Covers today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.
Video Tutorial: Getting started with Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Research in Context Offers magazines, newspapers, primary sources, over 12,000 videos and more on a variety of topics. Supports national and state curriculum standards in language arts, social studies and science.
Video Tutorial: Getting started with Research in Context
The Reference Shelf contains titles with carefully selected articles and documents to provide balanced coverage, supported by comprehensive background information, on topics of vital interest to students and researchers in our fast-changing world. View the collection’s History Titles. View the collection’s Literature Titles.
World Book is a suite of online research tools that includes encyclopedia articles, primary source collections, educator tools, student activities, pictures, audio, and video, complemented by current periodicals and related Web sites.
(Previously known as Infobits) Find newspaper and magazine articles, videos, images, and graphics. Here elementary students through grade 5 can learn about everything from animals and outer space to famous artists and favorite athletes.
Additional Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of World Biography 2nd edition: Vol. 1 – 23 (2004) | Vol. 24 (2005 Supplement) | Vol. 25 (2005 Supplement) | Vol. 26 (2006 Supplement) | Vol. 27 (2007 Supplement)
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Business Information
Note: MPL card is needed when accessing outside the library.
A premier job search, reference, and mailing list database.
Includes 2.3 million job listings, 30 million business profiles, 1.1 million healthcare professionals, and much more.
For sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends & relatives, and much more.
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Stock and mutual fund information from Morningstar.com.
Current and historical quotes for over 90,000 investments, and in-depth analysis for nearly 7,000 mutual funds and stocks.
Company and industry information and financial education tutorials.
Login to Business Insights Collection
Contains over 3,900 magazines and journals, nearly 25,000 industry reports, nearly 11,000 company histories and nearly 500,000 company profiles. Easy access to in-depth information on U.S. and international businesses, industries and products. You can:
Easily research companies, industries and business topics in the context of timely news and reports (See Company Finder).
Instantly analyze and compare financial and statistical data with interactive charting tools (See Interactive Comparison Charts).
Utilize data from Gale staple publications, including International Directory of Company Histories, Market Share Reporter, Business Rankings Annual, Encyclopedia of American Industries and many others.
Access company profiles and industry rankings, as well as brand and product information (See Industries).
Access SWOT reports, financial analysis tools, business associations, investment reports and market research reports.
Video Tutorials: Getting started with Business Insights: Essentials
Login to Business eBook Collection
Downloadable eBooks on a variety of Business topics.
Login to the Small Business Collection
Perfect for entrepreneurs and business schools, this compilation provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories.
Login to the Communication and Mass Media Collection
From marketing professionals to students studying for advanced degrees in linguistic theory, this collection provides current and accurate information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered include: advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and many more.
Login to the Computer Database
Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.
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Travel eBooks
Legal Information
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Learn a New Skill
Lessons are available in over 45 foreign languages (Spanish, French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Irish and more) and 15 English as a Second Language (ESL) courses. Your library card gives you access to Mango Basic & Mango Complete:
- Basic teaches simple, practical skills for common, polite conversation situations in only a few short hours.
- Complete 2.0 teaches in-depth and comprehensive language and grammar skills.
- Complete 1.0 courses are aimed at students who want to move beyond basic language skills.
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History & Genealogy
The 2000’s in America
This reference work covers the impact of the first decade of the twenty-first century, including the most significant people, institutions, events, and developments spanning both the United States and Canada. It contains more than 400 alphabetically arranged essays that cover the full breadth of North American history and culture throughout the decade.
The Sixties in America
The Sixties in America compiles the history of this significant decade in the United States and Canada, searchable by subject or keyword.
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Coverage of both the current thinking and events in US History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field. Useful both to the novice historian as well as to the advanced academic researcher.
Login to World History Collection
Coverage of both the current thinking and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field. Useful both to the novice historian as well as to the advanced academic researcher.
Historical New York Times from ProQuest. This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage: 1851 – 2011
Hudson River Valley Heritage Historical materials from New York State’s Hudson River Valley including the following newspapers:
- Newburgh Telegraph (1831 – 1835)
- Rockland County Journal (1850 – 1879)
- Rockland County Messenger (1848;1851 – 1855;1857)
- Rockland County Times (1902 – 1904)
- The Kingston Daily Freeman (1895;1903 – 1912)
- Vassar Miscellany News (1914 – 2000)
Local History
Ancestry Library
In library use only.
A user-friendly tool for all sorts of genealogical searches.
Heritage Quest
Note: MPL card is needed
Family records and local histories, including U.S. Federal census data, family, banking, and military records, genealogies, local histories, and more. Primary source materials new content added weekly.
General Genealogy
- Ancestor Roots Information Database
- Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
- FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service
- Find a Genealogist- Board for Certification (BCG)
- Genealogy: Ancestry Home Town
- National Archives Databases
- National Archives Page for Genealogists/Family Historians
- New York Public Library – Link to Genealogy Databases (Resources preceded by a globe icon are available to all)
- RootsWeb
- Shoah Victims’ Names-Central Database
- Social Security Death Index
- U.S. GenWeb
- Veterans’ Service Records
- Where to Write for Vital Records
Hudson Valley Resources
- Dutchess County Genealogical Society
- Dutchess County Historical Society
- GenWeb Putnam County
- GenWeb Dutchess County
- GenWeb Greene & Ulster Counties
- GenWeb Putnam County
- Greene County Historical Society and Vedder Research Library
- Haviland Heidgerd Historical Collection at The Elting Library, New Paltz
- Putnam County History Museum
- Ulster County Genealogical Society
New York State Resources
Historical Newspapers and Microfilm Collections
Immigration Resources
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Health Information
- Login to Health Reference Center
- Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc…
- Login to Psychology Collection
- Explore what makes people tick from childhood to death. This collection of 200 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops — and diminishes — over time.
- Login to the Nursing and Allied Health Collection
- All aspects of the Nursing profession — from direct patient care to health care administration — are covered in this collection. Including nearly 400 titles of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.
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Science Information
Downloadable eBooks about the Environment. MPL Card Required.
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Literature

Critical Insights: The Graphic Novel offers an examination and analysis of the contemporary graphic novel as literature. MPL card is needed.
Use NoveList Plus and NoveList K-8 Plus to find your next great read. Mahopac/MCSD residents can access from home with a library card. Non-residents can access onsite with one of library’s public computers.
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